Seinfeld Is Unfunny/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show (Animation)|The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''. Unprecedented and freakish when it debuted, it practically invented the "gross cartoon" paradigm. The gratuitous amounts of snot, [[Toilet Humor]] and [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]] were something completely new and unknown to the audience. Nowadays, Ren and Stimpy wouldn't shock or disgust many people ([[Squick|unless we're talking about the adult version]]), with the spawn of many cartoons that used similar [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)|characters]], [[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (Animation)|humor]] and [[Cat Dog|drawing]] [[Cow and Chicken (Animation)|style]] after Ren And Stimpy's success.

** This is not entirely true. While it is hands-down one of the most ripped off cartoons ever, the DVD boxes for said series still sport parental guidance labels on them, and the website commonsensemedia.org rates it as unsuitable for viewers '''below 15'''. Many commenters on youtube who watch this show, most of them who hadn't seen it since childhood, often point out how "screwed up" and "insane" it is. Honestly, how many cartoons these days show characters pulling out their nerve endings with a pair of tweezers?

* ''[[Shrek (Animation)|Shrek]]''. Back in 2001, this iconoclastic take on [[Fairy Tales]] and use of pop-culture references felt like a welcome reprieve from the usual animated fare. Now, with several films, including a few from Shrek's own studio [[Dreamworks Animation]], [[Follow the Leader|following the same formula]], the sheen has worn off the franchise.

** Most consider this trope to have reached [[Up to Eleven]] with the [[Trailers Always Lie|misleading ad campaign]] for Disney's ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'', which tried to portray a more traditional fairy tale as a hip spoof of fairy tales--meaning, in essence, that the [[Trope Maker]] for such traditional movies is now scared to admit they're still making them.